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Which teacher or staff member at PS 90 HORACE MANN deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27·NCES 360012302345
PS 90 HORACE MANN
86-50 109TH ST, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418 · (718) 847-3370 · Queens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
536 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 69 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (102).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
55.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 49.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 90 HORACE MANN
PS 90 HORACE MANN's state test result (45.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 90 HORACE MANN this school | 586 | 91.5% | 45.3% |
| PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS BRONX | 617 | 90.1% | 39.7% |
| PS 29 COLLEGE POINT | 682 | 90.5% | 44.9% |
| DR EMMETT W BASSETT SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 508 | 97.0% | 48.3% |
| PS 54 HILLSIDE RICHMOND HILL | 462 | 90.0% | 53.1% |
| PS 199 MAURICE A FITZGERALD LONG ISLAND CITY | 505 | 85.7% | 40.1% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 90 HORACE MANN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #1,373 of 2,335 | #165 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,249 of 2,342 ▲ 79 | #159 of 219 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,251 of 2,343 ▲ 15 | #162 of 220 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #517 of 2,585 | #99 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,710 of 2,338 | #122 of 218 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #1,035 of 2,388 | #138 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.5% | #350 of 2,534 | #31 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.2% | #262 of 1,757 | #33 of 167 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
586
-87 (-13%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 876
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 586 | 44 | 13.3:1 | 91% (536) |
| 2023-24 | 587 | 42.2 | 13.9:1 | 90% (529) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 41.5 | 14.6:1 | 91% (549) |
| 2020-21 | 673 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 90% (608) |
| 2017-18 | 852 | 55 | 15.5:1 | 91% (772) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 54 | 15.8:1 | 89% (758) |
| 2010-11 | 876 | 64 | 13.7:1 | 85% (745) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 90 HORACE MANN.
About PS 90 HORACE MANN
PS 90 HORACE MANN is a medium-sized elementary school found in RICHMOND HILL, New York. It educates 586 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
PS 90 HORACE MANN is one of 63 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27, which enrolls 39,209 students in total.
Hispanic students make up a majority at PS 90 HORACE MANN, at 63%. The remaining students are 24% Asian, 4% White, 4% Native American, and 3% Black. Census figures show Queens County is about 28% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.3 students per teacher. That matches the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 91% of students. The 77% average for public schools in Queens County is 14 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for PS 90 HORACE MANN is B-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 52% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with PS 90 HORACE MANN's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 41.4%. PS 90 HORACE MANN scores 45.3%, 4.0 points above that line.
Queens County census figures show that the median household income is $86,136, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Queens County is home to 392 public schools and about 268,205 public school students.
The nearest other public school, PS 56 HARRY EICHLER, is about 0.3 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 90 HORACE MANN ranks 7th of 8 on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 87 fewer students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.6:1 to 13.3:1.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27
- JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,400 students
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROESMiddle · 1,610 students
- JHS 210 ELIZABETH BLACKWELLMiddle · 1,459 students
- SCHOLARS' ACADEMYHigh · 1,184 students
- CHANNEL VIEW SCHOOL FOR RESEARCHHigh · 1,180 students
Other schools in RICHMOND HILL
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,841 students
- PS 254 ROSA PARKS SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 525 students
- S.T.A.R. LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 507 students
- PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSISElementary · 470 students
- PS 55 MAUREElementary · 466 students
- PS 54 HILLSIDEElementary · 462 students
Nearby schools
- PS 56 HARRY EICHLER0.3 mi · 360
- RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,841
- PS 2730.3 mi · 329
- PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS0.4 mi · 470
- PS 510.4 mi · 202
- PS 254 ROSA PARKS SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 525
Frequently asked questions
About PS 90 HORACE MANNWhat is the total enrollment at PS 90 HORACE MANN?
PS 90 HORACE MANN enrolls approximately 586 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 90 HORACE MANN serve?
PS 90 HORACE MANN serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 90 HORACE MANN?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at PS 90 HORACE MANN.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 90 HORACE MANN?
At PS 90 HORACE MANN, the student body is approximately 4% White, 63% Hispanic, 3% Black, 24% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 90 HORACE MANN?
PS 90 HORACE MANN is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 in Queens County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.